by Jordana Choucair | Jun 28, 2022 | Payers
An estimated 13 million individuals purchasing health coverage on an Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange could see their premiums jump by an average of 50 percent next year if Congress doesn’t extend enhanced premium subsidies. The American Rescue Plan Act removed the...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 28, 2022 | Payers
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met with leaders from 14 health plans to ensure they are offering birth control as required by the ACA. The two secretaries, along with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, also...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | Payers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved Colorado’s Section 1332 state innovation waiver to create its own state-specific public option plan starting next year. Colorado is the first state to get approval for a public option plan. The plan,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 23, 2022 | Payers
Walmart announced it is expanding health care coverage for employees who want to enlist the services of a doula to address racial inequities in maternal care. The retailer started offering doulas to employees in Georgia last year and will expand the same benefit to...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 22, 2022 | Payers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that proposes to update payment rates and policies under the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for Calendar Year (CY) 2023. The rule proposes to increase the...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 22, 2022 | Payers
he Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that an employer-sponsored health plan can designate all dialysis providers as out-of-network. In 2018, DaVita sued Marietta Memorial Hospital alleging that its plan violated federal law by not having an in-network option for dialysis and...
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